[cgbeige]

I'm losing my mind, here. I can't get Maya to just render a material preview with the official release plug-in and Maxwell. I have no idea what's wrong but I hate two days to do an archviz job and this isn't helping. I think you guys need a 12-core Westmere Mac Pro to test because there's some really weird stuff happening. Preview rendering uses 2 of 24 threads and then never ends. I force quit it and it updates the thumbnail:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7990437/previewrender.mov

[Mihnea Balta]

There's a bug in Maxwell which makes it hang sometimes when very small resolutions are used on machines with lots of cores. It will be fixed in the next release, but in the mean time try increasing the swatch resolution in the plug-in settings panel (window -> rendering editors -> maxwell). Setting it to 65x65 usually gets rid of the problem.